🎉 Registrations are now open for our Undergraduate Virtual Open Days! Join us online from 13–17 October to: 📖 Have an introduction to our courses 📝 Experience a live taster session 📚 Chat with staff and students Sign up: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-days/...

Thinking about teaching? Start your journey at our Teacher Training Open Evening. 🗓 Tue 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm 📍 UCL Institute of Education, London • Explore PGCE routes • Discover our Secondary Maths Teacher Apprenticeship • Meet staff & advisors Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...

Maps can inspire discovery – or fuel division. Prof James Cheshire’s Library of Lost Maps explores both sides. Hear his talk at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Monday Night Lecture, 6 Oct. Book now: tinyurl.com/ucl-llm #UCLGeography #MapsMatter #LibraryOfLostMaps

Autumn is officially in the air, and so is copyright 🍂©️ Whatever way you are using text and images this term, UCL copyright team has a session to support you 💻 Take a look at the programme and register for a session 👉 buff.ly/o1y0g15 (Image AI-generated from Microsoft Copilot)

Wishing a Happy New Year to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah!

Book a tour! Find out how to make the most of our services, facilities and collections by booking your place on a free tour led by IOE library staff. They take place between 22 Sept and 9 Oct, and last 30 mins (tour) or one hour (tour and induction). Book now: tinyurl.com/6xyfv8bj

Our guides, training and support enable you to develop your information literacy skills. Find out more and make the best use of our libraries. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills #WelcomeToUCL

Welcome new students! We're here to support you during your UCL journey. Here are some essential services to help you make the most of your studies. Come and speak to our friendly librarians at the Help Desk if you have any questions. We are here and happy to help.

This year's theme for East and South East Asian Heritage Month is reframing resilience, to honour and celebrate the voices and experiences of immigrant communities. Share your book recommendations here: https://ucl-global.libwizard.com/f/EastAndSouthEastAsianHeritageMonth2025

We are still putting finishing touches to things, but we'd love to hear your thoughts about the newly refurbished library space. Follow this link to complete a short survey. It will only take a minute! forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x

snapshots from this year's @ucl.ac.uk graduations 🎓📸 #UCLGrad

We are still putting finishing touches to things, but we'd love to hear your thoughts about the newly refurbished library. Follow this link to complete the short survey and share your views. forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x

A big congratulations to all our students graduating today! 💜 We're incredibly proud of everything you've achieved – and we can't wait to see what you'll do next 🎓🎉 #UCLGrad

Level 5 has always been a fan favourite for users who prefer peaceful study space. We have reorganised the area to provide 40 additional study spaces and created a beautiful display area to showcase our resources. You will still find luscious greenery both inside and on view from the windows.

Moving to Level 3, we have reorganised the space and improved the soundproofing to keep this area a great place for quiet study. It now holds 218 study spaces. We have a large area of PC and monitor desks and added private study pods.

If you’ve visited us before, you’ll see we’ve had a makeover. If you’re new to IOE, here's a taste of our updated space, complete with new furniture, better electrics, and more study areas: 561 in total across 3 floors. Here's Level 4, with 63 new study spaces, and new sofas, desks, and glass pods.

Welcome to our new PGCE students! We are excited for you to visit our newly refurbished library. We have created a display specifically for you to help you become great educators. Find resources to prepare for teaching placements, navigate your UCL journey, and support your wellbeing. #NewToUCL

Jo Van Herwegen @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social also advocates for universal screenings in early primary school, a more inclusive way to develop tailored support for students, based on both strengths and weaknesses. Also featured in Tes' top articles on SEND 👇 www.tes.com/magazine/teachin...

Are you teaching about George Orwell's Animal Farm? On the book's 80th birthday, discover letters, special editions and teaching resources from the Orwell collection – free and available online. @uclspeccoll.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/aug/...

We're reopening! On Tue 26 August we open our doors so you can explore the new-look IOE Library. Our new layout has 165 new study spaces, new pods and upgraded furniture. And all our furniture is powered so you can charge your devices easily. But note, we're closed on bank holiday Monday. #WeAreIOE

A-level results week! We hope you're celebrating your exam results and basking in the sun - as well as in your success. See you here in the IOE Library soon! You'll be arriving at a revamped library, currently still under wraps... so stay tuned. #WeAreIOE #ResultsDay #NewToUCL

Huge congratulations to all those receiving their A-Level results today 🎉 We can't wait to welcome you to IOE! If you have any questions about Results Day, check out our FAQs 👇

Amid a focus on raising standards in early years, @juliangrenier.bsky.social shares his recommended reads on pedagogy and practice

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...

We are saddened to hear that the children's author Allan Ahlberg has died, aged 87. With his wife, the illustrator Janet Ahlberg - and later other great illustrators - he wrote a stream of brilliant classics that made bedtime a joy for children and adults. Here are a few we hold at the IOE Library.

The @ucl.ac.uk Early Career Framework (ECF) programme has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted. The ECF programme has supported over 21,500 early career teachers with professional development and personalised support. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

We have made good progress on the redevelopment but encountered some delays. Our new opening date is 26th August 2025. We will continue to provide key services such as Click and Collect, book issue and return, laptop loans, print services and research support.

“My mum’s a soldier." "I’m close to my mum." "She’s the one who runs the house." How can young men's love for their mothers counter the pull of violent and misogynistic street cultures? #IOEBlog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/07/...

Gold! The IOE Library was awarded Gold at the recent UCL Sustainability Awards. Congratulations to our fantastic Green Impact Champion/Rep Amy-Laura (pictured), to Christina, Dominika, Miriam and Robert for their support, and to everyone else who has helped make the library a greener place.

Check out our new research support display on Level 4. We have fantastic resources on research design, methods, data and analysis, and how to write it all up. Looking for tailored support? Book a 1:1 to session with a subject librarian to address a specific research need. Resources linked below.

Get inspired for Children's Art Week at the IOE Library! 🎨🖍️ Our display showcases kid-friendly resources on art history, theory, and technique, along with enough craft ideas to keep a classroom busy for days.

Come on over.

World Population Day is an opportunity to consider the idea of 'population' broadly, such as considering environmental challenges, war, structural inequalities, and fertility trends. It's also a chance to examine the connections between population studies and eugenics, and their legacy today. (1/2)

"Being human, being a learner, being mortal: one teacher’s story" — using #Bruner’s #MACOS (Man: A Course of Study) curriculum to help students embrace other cultures through storytelling. Read @uclspeccoll.bsky.social: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #EduSky #Teachers #Teaching #AntiEthnocentrism

Throughout June UCL staff and doctoral students attended Transform: Creating impact through knowledge exchange, a series of events and workshops designed to help them transform their research and knowledge into real world impact. Read more: bit.ly/3ZVNUNf #UCLTransform

There are still places on our copyright sessions this June. ​ Our remaining sessions focus on the use of images, teaching materials, and GenAI. library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/calendar/lib...

We’re celebrating Pride Month with a new book display on LGBTQ+ topics. It prominently features new books from our Social Research collection and intersectional approaches to gender and identity. Visit us and learn about history and culture, theory and practice, and activism this Pride. #PrideMonth

Rut-a-tut-tut the library is shut; shut for a day, so stay away; but be back Wednesday. Be aware, a conference is in session; but don't fear for study space is near.

Let's celebrate National Thank a Teacher Day!

We are still open to borrow books! Since you cannot browse the open shelves, you need to request your books in advance using Click and Collect via Explore. We will then email you when they are ready for pick up from the Click and Collect shelves, now located at the front of the library.

Is diplomacy effective in resolving global crises? Find out in the next #UCLDisagreeingWell event on 3 July. Featuring Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark among leading diplomats and experts. Book your ticket now, includes a free drink 🎟️ ⬇️ 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...

Just a reminder: There are still places on our Copyright for Humans Game today at 2pm. Sign up here: library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4347904

UCL Press’s 10th Anniversary event is tomorrow! Our expert panel from the worlds of HE and scholarly publishing will discuss achievements in open access monograph publishing in the last 10 years. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-press-...

Work is underway! Our study spaces are now closed until August while the redevelopment takes place. We are still here ready to help you pick up Click and Collect requests, borrow a laptop and print. See our previous post for great alternative study spots in the IOE or explore other UCL libraries.

Where can I study while the IOE Library's spaces are closed? There are lots of great spots here in the IOE suitable for quiet and group study. Why not explore some of these hidden gems. You might find the computer cluster with a great view of the BT tower, or the open plan study area in the Wing.

Eid al-Adha Mubarak.

Don't forget, there will be no access to study space in the library from Monday 9th June until 5th August. We are still here to deliver key services including: - Click and Collect - Laptop Loan - Book issue and return - Print services Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/about-...

Copyright is relevant to all of us. But do your eyes glaze over at the mention of ‘copyright’? Our Copyright for Humans game will keep you awake. Join us to play online, using Mentimeter. Wednesday 11 June at 2pm - online session Register: library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4347904

The next 'Sit with the Editor' session @ioe.bsky.social takes place on 5/6/25, 13:00–14:00 GMT. Editors of 'Educational Review' & 'Int’l Journal of Social Pedagogy' will share tips & answer questions on publishing in these journals. See: ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

A fantastic start to #OSFest25 this morning, looking at publishing methods and protocols with @protocolsio.bsky.social. With three different sessions tomorrow and more over the week ahead, it’s not too late to have a look at the festival schedule and register your place: buff.ly/jZsSd6U